The Pentagon Is Also Responsible for the Afghanistan Debacle

The incredible incompetence with which the U.S. military executed the withdrawal is both astounding and inexplicable.

The rapidity of the collapse of the Afghan Security Forces in the first weeks of August may have come as a surprise to U.S. military planners, but the roots of military failure stretch back to July when the Americans snuck out of Bagram Air Base in the middle of the night with virtually no coordination with their Afghan allies.

Virtually every basic principle of such operations was violated in Afghanistan.

Many observers have likened the situation in Kabul to the fall of Saigon, but the U.S. military has put itself in the position more analogous to that of the French at Dien Bien Phu.

This stunning failure of both proper military planning and anticipation by a Pentagon that claims to manage the best military in the world must have our allies very worried and our adversaries wringing their hands in glee.

They had roughly the same time frame that Biden gave his generals to plan and execute the operation in Afghanistan.

This military genius advised his superiors to get out as quickly as possible and was responsible for the abandonment of Bagram.

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